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Sep 21, 2023 · The case of Woodman versus Johnson, of two respectable married women who owned neighbouring gardens, began in 1912 when Eliza Woodman found a parcel on her doorstep containing a kitten, skinned.
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Mar 12, 2024 · With one failed case against Edith, but increasingly certain of her guilt, the police needed to catch her in the act of ‘publishing’ (i.e. posting) a poison pen letter. The Post Office Investigation Branch spent a month observing the post office and peering inside pillar boxes with a “special periscope mirror”.
Jan 8, 2024 · Coined in America, the term “poison pen” was first used in 1911 in a headline for an article in the Maryland Evening Post. The press popularized the term in Britain in the 1920s. Poisoning was the form of murder most connected to women, and these letters were regarded as a form of social poisoning more often than not perpetrated by women.
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Mar 23, 2024 · Stories worth watching 16 videos. Wicked Little Letters: The poison pen letter scandal that rocked Britain. 05:46. Watch: Mitch McConnell blasts Tucker Carlson over Ukraine bill. 00:36. Video ...
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Sep 3, 2023 · Unwanted attention: anonymous messages are known as poison pen letters. “Perhaps in a trance or coma, don’t bury yet – the other Curate was reported dead – some time since.”. This ...
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Mar 31, 2018 · The letter attacked the charitable foundation my husband and I set up for the relief of stress and mental well-being. We run poetry workshops in prisons and half-way houses, schools and hospices. The letter said I was only doing it ‘to engineer a trip to the Palace’, whatever that meant. For our foundation to be attacked was the final straw.
Mar 10, 2020 · March 10, 2020 By Curtis Evans. Across the transatlantic world in the early decades of the twentieth century a terrible wave of poison attacks took place, cruelly claiming hordes of human victims. In contrast with the toxic chlorine, phosgene and mustard gases which armies put to such ghastly and inhuman use during the First World War, however ...
